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View book details for Shot Down and on the Run
True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews of WWII
Thousands of airmen shot down over enemy soil between 1940 and 1945 miraculously escaped capture. This compelling narrative reveals their stories, based on first-hand interviews, photographs and official documents, featuring heroes from Britain, Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries. These …
View book details for The Death of Kirti Kadakia
A Temple Hill Mystery
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 CWA DAGGER AWARDThere is nothing more tragic than the loss of face - not even the loss of life. Radhi Zaveri returns home to Mumbai's posh Temple Hill in search of a salve for her broken …
Ulysses Grant was his country's greatest general since George Washington. Like Washington, Grant's battlefield performance was the only factor standing between the United States continuing as one, indivisible nation. Grant was the keystone of Union victory, a man whose removal …
View book details for The Friendship Formula
Add great friends, subtract toxic people and multiply your happiness
Friendship is such an important part of our lives but how much do we really know about it? Do we understand how it works, what it is and what it means? In her last book, Caroline Millington introduced us to …
First published in 1965, this novel asks you not to laugh: it's Berl...Berl's wife ran away with the gardener. Could you blame her? Berl is a little Jewish odd-job man who wanders around in a black serge suit, striped trousers, …
A reckless woman, a story of violence, the possibility of redemption... Ex-journalist Kay and her family are spending the summer in a rented farmhouse in Vermont. Kay is haunted by her traumatic past in Africa, and is struggling with her …
An exciting look at how various animals use venom for survival.A wide variety of insects, reptiles and amphibians use toxins to subdue their prey or to stop becoming prey to another predator. Even some mammals and birds resort to poison …
View book details for The Real Global Warming Disaster
Is the obsession with 'climate change' turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history?
Booker focuses his attention on the mother of all environmental scares: global warming.This original book considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that …
From Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of BLONDE, now a major motion picture, six terrifying tales to chill the blood.A young boy plays with dolls instead of action figures. But as he grows older, his passion takes on …
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A sparkling, feel-good romantic comedy to whisk you away!
From the number one bestselling author Claudia Carroll comes a warm, witty feel-good story. He's the one. Definitely... Isn't he? When aspiring Dublin journalist Holly Johnson finds the man of her dreams online she can't believe her luck! But when …
The Guards fought in every major British campaign on the continent during the Napoleonic Wars. They carved their place in history under commanders such as Sir John Moore and Wellington from Corunna and Talavera during the Peninsula War to their …
View book details for We Are Not Yet Equal
Understanding Our Racial Divide
This young adult adaptation of the New York Times bestselling White Rage is essential antiracist reading for teens.An NAACP Image Award finalistA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearA NYPL Best Book for TeensHistory texts often teach that the United …
View book details for Let's Chase Stars Together
Poems to lose yourself in, perfect for 10+
Book Band: Dark Red (ideal for ages 10+)_______________A standout new collection of contemporary poems from prize-winning poet Matt Goodfellow, author of Bright Bursts of Colour. Ideal for children aged 10+Perfectly reflecting the thoughts, feelings and imaginings of young people, these …
View book details for Everything Is Going to Be K.O.
An illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties
A hilarious and heartfelt illustrated memoir of living with specific learning difficulties.In Everything is Going to be K.O., Kaiya Stone writes about her experiences of living with specific learning difficulties: from struggling at school, to being diagnosed with dyslexia and …
You can't escape the past. He was the cold steel behind Franco's regime. The fear behind Franco's power. 57 years ago, Comandante Leopoldo Guzman disappeared without a trace. They know what he did, but they don't know where he's gone. …
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Optimise Your Bike Position for High Performance and Injury Avoidance
This practical guide, written by a leading BIKE FIT expert, takes you step-by-step through the BIKE FIT process to ensure you maximise your cycling potential. Do you suffer from lower back pain after a long weekend ride? Do your shoes …
The Republic F-105 Thunderchief was the fastest and most successful strike fighter of the Cold War. Designed to deliver nuclear weapons at low altitude and then fight its way back to base, by the early 1960s it was the primary …
Do you believe in guardian angels? What if you're sent to watch over your cheating ex and his new girlfriend. Fabulous and funny! Charlotte is hovering between life and death, but it's taken a coma for her to realize she's …
The tense, tender must-read book of the summer perfect for fans of Louise O'Neill and Sara Barnard'You make me feel like there's something good in the world I can hold on to,' Aaron says. He kisses me again, draws me …
View book details for A Matter Of Life And Death
A History of Football in 100 Quotations
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH takes the sayings of the great and the good not to mention the lovers and the loathers of the beautiful game as starting points for an informal, freewheeling and entertainingly opinionated history of football. …
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A Lifetime of Soldiering from Vietnam to the SAS
'We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go, Always a little further; it may be, Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow.' If there was ever anyone who went a little further, a little beyond, it was Alastair MacKenzie. …
Do YOU believe in the Laws of Attraction? Light-hearted, funny and thoroughly entertaining... Vicky Harper is still hopelessly single and having to face up to the unpalatable fact that the last time she had a relationship with that highly elusive …
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Essays for Dissenting Adults
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018'A blast, in all senses' Financial TimesIncludes a new preface and extra essaysSmart and provocative, this collection of Laurie Penny's writing establishes her as one of the most urgent and vibrant feminist voices of our …
I looked again at the folded map of Europe in my hand. Then I crossed the road to the Continental booking office and bought a ticket for Salzburg in Austria. Return?" asked the clerk. Definitely not," I told him. In …
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The Story of Women in Corporate India
Leadership by Proxy by Poonam Barua is a pioneering book that lays an archival milestone for creating a brave new mindset in corporate India and businesses worldwide -- that will genuinely embrace balanced leadership as a true goal of corporate …
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